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Fleet Street's maiden aunts
- Peter Wilby
- 20 November 2006
Newspapers have never been good at picking up and responding positively to major social shifts
It was us wot won it
- Peter Wilby
- 13 November 2006
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On Iraq and global warming, the left has been vindicated. Our foes still cannot produce apologies, and instead treat us to some intriguing self-justification
The BBC should hold its nerve
- Peter Wilby
- 06 November 2006
BBC bigwigs have held a day-long conference to examine their own impartiality. This was probably a mistake
Mills and McCartney . . . must I take sides?
- Peter Wilby
- 30 October 2006
The posh papers are never very helpful on these occasions, offering a mixture of world-weary cynicism and high-minded lamentation
The general puts the press in a spin
- Peter Wilby
- 23 October 2006
How would Max Hastings, press cheerleader for all things military, cope with Sir Richard? No problem. He yomped on regardless, bravely pocketing another cheque under heavy gunfire
Tired of Islam thrust in our faces
- Peter Wilby
- 16 October 2006
The trouble with being a Muslim is you're not allowed an off day. You can't, if you're a cab driver, say, "Sorry, guv, not going that way, the missus expects me home for prayers"
Magnificent on Iraq, but no longer a player
- Peter Wilby
- 09 October 2006
At heart a bland creature, the Independent presents on its front page the alarming exterior of a rabid dog. Still, we should be thankful that it exists at all, and should celebrate its 20th birthday
Sooner or later, you pay for it
- Peter Wilby
- 02 October 2006
The trick the music industry has pulled off is to make teenagers crave the smell and feel of vinyl. Newspapers need to do something similar
The Age of Delicate Feelings
- Peter Wilby
- 25 September 2006
In my time as editor it was one damned offence after another: Muslims, Catholics, Jews, Blairites, Castroites, the US embassy, all demanded apologies
It's about pershonalities, stupid
- Peter Wilby
- 18 September 2006
Newspapers understand perfectly well that politics gets interesting only when you keep ishoos out of it
